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• The FCC has long criticized rimshotting because it violates the core public-interest obligation under 47 U.S.C. § 307(b) to serve the “needs and interests” of the community to which the license is assigned. Tacoma has just one local station, KNKX, but it super-serves Seattle. I long for the days when the Tacoma News Tribune operated KTNT AM-FM-TV, KMO played Country music and KTAC played the Top 40 pop tunes. Radio today is generally unlistenable. There is little local talent and practically ZERO personality.
  Beertender, pour me another, please!

  • Civilization + civility = Canadian radio, Canadian people, Canada in general, for that matter.

    I'm tuned to CFRY Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. It's the Saturday Night Polka Party!

    I found it on https://radio.garden/

    Radio Garden is a clickable world globe. Like any map, the smaller the dot on the map, the smaller the town. I clicked on a tiny one in the Canadian Prairies and arrived at Portage la Prairie MB, pop. 13,000 or so.

    Copperline Radio in Birmingham, Alabama is another recent find. "Your Home for Indie & Alt Country, Bluegrass & Folk Music"

• June Lockhart, an actress who debuted at 8 with the Metropolitan Opera, won a Tony Award at 22 for her Broadway performance as a winsome ingénue and had a long career on television, notably starring as warmhearted matriarchs opposite a collie in “Lassie” and a robot on “Lost in Space,” died Oct. 23 at her home in Santa Monica. She was 100 years old.
  

  • June Lockhart said she was nothing like the women she portrayed, and that there were many more important things than acting. “I have driven Army tanks and flown in hot air balloons. And I go plane-gliding — the ones with no motors. I do a lot of things that don’t go with my image.”

    She also used her own media pass to attend presidential news conferences. Lyle Gregory, a friend of 40 years, said, “Her true passion was journalism. She loved going to the White House briefing rooms.”

    Her parents met when they were hired separately for a touring production sponsored by Thomas A. Edison. At a stopover at Lake Louise, they decided to get married.

    June Lockhart was near thirty when rock and roll was born, and she loved it.

    imdb.com
    Chicago Tribune

• 03/29/10 - TV journalist and former news anchor Margaret Larson returns to KING-TV
  Seattle to host a new daytime show, New Day Northwest.

  03/28/10 - KLSY-FM 107.9 South Bend, recently acquired from South Bend Broadcating
  by Jodesha Broadcasting, Inc., will launch April 1 as 107-9 The Quake with a
  Classic Rock format.

  03/26/10 - Former KITI AM 1420 Centralia morning host Roger Dale Pederson died
  Thursday, March 25 at age 63 due to complications from cancer. He worked at KOL and
  KMPS Seattle in the 1970s.

• October 31, 2019 - Long-time baseball player and broadcaster Ron Fairly died Wednesday in
  Indian Wells, CA at age 81. He spent 14 seasons with the Seattle Mariners as an analyst and occasional play-by-play voice before retiring from full-time duties in 2006.

  October 19, 2019 - Tracey Leong is a new morning anchor at KIRO 7 Seattle. She was a
  reporter for a short time at KTTV Los Angeles and previously was a weekend morning
  anchor/ reporter at WJZ-TV Baltimore.

  October 15, 2019 - Matthew Smith is joining KIRO-TV Seattle at the end of the month. He's been a reporter at WXYZ-TV Detroit since 2016.

  October 14, 2019 - Former Seattle broadcaster Lisa Adams has been named PD of the newly
  launched Adult Contemporary format Magic 97.9 KQFC-FM Boise, ID. She will also
  handle mornings. Adams was most recently Program Director for KNUC-FM 98.9 Seattle.

  October 9, 2019 - “The Morning Wolfpack with Matt McAllister” on The Wolf KKWF-FM 100.7
  Seattle wins Major Market CMA Personality of the Year.

  October 8, 2019 - KOMO-TV Seattle news anchor Mary Nam speaks for the first time about her
  very personal fight with breast cancer. She underwent mastectomy surgery and it was
  a resounding success. Doctors say she will not need chemotherapy or radiation
  treatment.

  The Salem Media Group trade of KKOL 1300 AM Seattle for Intelli, LLC's
  KPAM 860 AM in Portland has now officially closed.

  October 5, 2019 - After nearly ten years in Pittsburgh, Vinnie Richichi, aka New York
  Vinnie returns to Seattle, with his "Drivetime" car-culture show Saturdays on KKNW
  AM 1150.

  October 3, 2019 - KIRO-TV Seattle news anchor John Knicely has announced his departure to
  pursue interests outside of TV news. He's been with KIRO since October 2012.

  October 2, 2019 - KKOL AM 1300 Seattle has been off air since the weekend. The signals of
  co-combined KLFE AM 1590 & KNTS AM 1680 are both operating at normal power.

  October 1, 2019 - Q13 KCPQ-TV Seattle begins broadcasting The Star-Spangled Banner at 3:58
  a.m. every morning as part of a broader initiative to bring the National Anthem back
  to airwaves across America. It is one of 197 Nexstar TV stations that will have
  daily National Anthem broadcasts.

  Former KAFE-FM 104.1 Bellingham PD Scott Roddy has been named OM/PD for
  Country The Wolf KWJJ-FM 99.5 and Hot AC The Buzz KRSK-FM 105.1 Portland. He was PD
  at KAFE from 2013-16.

• Free movie on Youtube for your viewing pleasure---Robert Shayne (Inspector Henderson, Superman TV series) and Joe Flynn (McHale's Navy) give a dead (although his eyes blink) Lon Chaney, 287,000 volts of electricity and he comes to life as The Indestructible Man. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt7eedQCDQY&t=728s Totally believable and likely scientifically correct!

  • Three nights ago I discovered a 1989 movie on Plex that I didn't know existed, "Get Smart, Again!"

    Maxwell Smart and Agent 99, still played by Don Adams and Barbara Feldon, are married!

    All the old catch phrases, sight gags etc. are there. Some of the repartee between Max and 99 would have been bleeped on the old show.

    Barbara Feldon was 56 when this movie was made, and was cute and adorable as ever. Don Adams was 66 and looked a lot younger.

    Check it out. Laugh out loud!

• Everyone has an opinion. This is Bob Dylan's. https://americansongwriter.com/the-1968-existential-country-classic-bob-dylan-considers-the-greatest-song-ever-written/

  Myself, I might choose Rhapsody In Blue.

  What say you?

  • Too many great songs to pick a favorite, but I agree with Mr. Dylan that Wichita Lineman is one of Glen Campbell's two best.

    Once on Theme Time Radio Hour, Bob played Let's Invite Them Over by George Jones and Melba Montgomery and said he liked it. He didn't know another song on that theme.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Qx6ipiAlng&list=RD4Qx6ipiAlng&start_radio=1

    • I guess the theme would continue with:
      "(If Loving You Is Wrong) We Can Say It's A Polyamourous Relationship."
      "The Chair, Or The Swing, Your Choice."
      "Torn Between Two Live-In Lovers"
      "Young Love, Or Minor Attraction?"
      "You’re So Good When You’re Bad. Do It To Me One More Time (Medley)."
      "Breathe, This Won't Hurt."

• HOLLYWOOD, July 30. 1962 (Rick Du Brow)
  **(U.P.I.)—**Some weeks ago, it was suggested by this viewer that it would be difficult to find a more tasteless television show than Dick Clark's daily dance program. This, of course, was gentle understatement. But since then, I have been informed that if Clark's program were not for it, the nation might well be deluged by a wave of juvenile delinquency between the hours of 4 and 4:50 p.m. each day when the show is aired. Scores of Clark fans have written in—and whose repetition of phrases and geographical groupings might make a more cynical person suspect that well-oiled clubs admirers work. THE PHRASING that found its way into most of the letters was to the effect that teen-agers for Clark, roaming the streets, wondering what to do, fighting, stealing, doing heaven knows what, apparently oblivious to the demands of parents and all between 4 and 4:50 p.m. This is food for thought. On the one hand, it is a matter of patriotism, not commercialism, to keep Clark on the air. If he is ever canned, it may mean national emergency. Certainly the number of police officers will have to be increased to watch those teen-agers— except on week-ends, when Clark is off and things seem to have held together somehow. On the other hand, perhaps Clark could be persuaded to extend his program to three or five or six hours a day, because obviously this would cut down proportionately on juvenile delinquency. Dick Clark might even go 24 hours a day and thereby eliminate delinquency completely. Some of the letters were intelligent and forthright; I quote verbatim one young lady from Walnut Creek, Calif.: "Don't Cal. no he (Clark) is the great teen age idle of are time? . . . I rilly dig him and them kids what dances. He has did gret things for us kids agin . . . what have you did." Another teen-ager, from Coroopolis, Pa., signed off: "Sincerely, Angry." The greatest single objection came concerning the opinion that Clark "offers his viewers a steady diet of animalistic, guttural, moronic, almost always forgettable and at times bordering on the suggestive." Finally, the letters charged, almost without exception, that I must be an old fogey.

  • Back in the days when the kids knew how to write in cursive.

• PEOPLE OF FASHION - United Press International - Princess Lee Radziwill, Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy's sister, said in Paris today she was "tired, just tired," of all this Givenchy business."The "Givenchy business" stemmed from Hubert de Givenchy's refusal to allow Princess Radziwill to attend one of his couturier house's customer shows next week. Givenchy said he considered the princess a member of the working press. She has been writing about fashions for an American magazine, but this work would have been finished by tomorrow. Her visit would have been as a potential buyer, she said. This was not good enough for Givenchy. The princess could see his collections with the rest of the press next month, he said, and not before.
  "Yes, it's true I said I won't darken his door again," the princess said. "But I'm tired of the whole thing now, just tired. I think he (Givenchy) has got enough publicity." The princess is considered one of the world's best-dressed women. She shopped at Givenchy for six years, but recently turned to a new designer, the youthful Yves Saint Laurent.

  • Givenchy: You are not invited, media rat!
    Radziwell: I didn't want to go to your dress-up party anyway.
    Givenchy: Burn! I guess I rattled your cage. (tee hee)
    Radziwell: You campy twink!
    Givenchy: I know you are, so what am I?
    Radziwell: I'm rubber, you're glue. Bounces off me and sticks to you.

• Susan Stamberg, an original National Public Radio staffer who went on to become the first U.S. woman to anchor a nightly national news program, died Thursday at the age of 87.

• Thanks to historylink.org

  Seventy-three years ago this week, Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy made his first political visit to Washington, campaigning for Republican presidential nominee Dwight D. Eisenhower and incumbent Republican Senator Harry P. Cain. He also hoped to speak out about the dangers of Communism in America, but his trip didn't turn out quite like he had planned.

  McCarthy missed his first appearance in Everett when his plane was socked in by heavy fog in Portland, Oregon, and he had to speak on behalf of Cain by telephone from Vancouver. He arrived late in Seattle the next afternoon, and rather than give two more scheduled talks he opted to prepare for his speech at that evening's fourth annual Gridiron Banquet, hosted by the Washington State Press Club.

  Unbeknownst to McCarthy, the Gridiron Banquet is a traditionally unserious event, where members of the press crack jokes and throw verbal potshots at everyone. The senator seethed as he sat through the folly, and became angrier when he was heckled during his speech. The heckles became jeers and boos when McCarthy badmouthed General George Marshall, who was looked upon as a hero for his role in rebuilding post-war Europe with the Marshall Plan.

  McCarthy finished his talk and left before the end of dinner for an appearance on KING-TV, but his troubles weren't over yet. When he arrived at the station, KING-TV officials requested that the Senator remove two paragraphs from his planned talk that appeared to be libelous. McCarthy refused, and his telecast was cancelled. As he left the station for the airport, he threatened to have the station's broadcast license revoked.

  

  Back in Washington D.C., McCarthy never filed a complaint with the FCC . . . MACO

  • Joe McCarthy's heavy alcohol consumption (he was an alcoholic) and volatile temper alienated many. Biographers like David Oshinsky (A Conspiracy So Immense) describe him as charming in small doses but distrustful and quick to accuse even acquaintances of disloyalty, which eroded potential friendships.

    McCarthy had few genuine allies. Early supporters like Senator William Jenner or Roy Cohn (his chief counsel during the hearings) were more like subordinates or ideological partners than close friends. Cohn, for instance, was a professional collaborator, but their relationship soured over time amid scandals. Many senators avoided him.

    He befriended some journalists (those who amplified his claims), but these were transactional. His staff turnover was high due to his demanding and abusive style.
    McCarthy often used people instrumentally.

    McCarthy did not have many close friends. He had acquaintances, enablers, and admirers during his peak (1950-1954), but historical records (e.g., from the U.S. Senate archives, books like Thomas Reeves' The Life and Times of Joe McCarthy, and declassified FBI files) paint him as a lonely, distrustful man whose behavior repelled lasting relationships.

    Why So Few Close Friends? His McCarthyism tactics—baseless accusations and blacklisting—made enemies across party lines, fostering paranoia that extended to personal interactions.
    Post-censure, he became increasingly isolated, dying alone in a Bethesda naval hospital with minimal visitors.